RFC Editor Report to the IETF

2009-07-29 Thread RFC Editor
Greetings,

The RFC Editor report to the IETF is available at

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Correction: Protocol Action: 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)' to Draft Standard

2009-07-29 Thread IESG Secretary
The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) '
   as a Draft Standard


This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-rfc3852bis-00.txt

Technical Summary

  This document specifies the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS),
  which is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt
  arbitrary message content.  The content of this document is
  based on RFC 3852 but also incorporates errata and the 
  clarifications previously published as RFC 4853.

Working Group Summary

  RFC 3852 was a product of the smime working group.
  CMS is widely referenced, and is a key building block for
  specifications developed by the S/MIME, ltans, and keyprov
  working groups.

Document Quality

  Two or more interoperable implementations have been identified for
  all features.  The implementation report is available at:

http://www.ietf.org/iesg/implementation/report-rfc3852.txt

Personnel

  Tim Polk is the responsible Area Director

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Protocol Action: 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)' to Draft Standard

2009-07-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) '
as a Draft Standard


This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-rfc3852bis-00.txt

Technical Summary

   This document specifies the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS),
   which is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt
   arbitrary message content.  The content of this document is
   based on RFC 3852 but also incorporates errata and the 
   clarifications previously published as RFC 4853.

Working Group Summary

   RFC 3852 was a product of the smime working group.
   CMS is widely referenced, and is a key building block for
   specifications developed by the S/MIME, ltans, and keyprov
   working groups.

Document Quality

   Two or more interoperable implementations have been identified for
   all features.  The implementation report is available at:

http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Implementations/CMS-Interoperability-Report.txt

Personnel

   Tim Polk is the responsible Area Director

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Document Action: 'Simple SIP Usage Scenario for Applications in the Endpoints' to Informational RFC

2009-07-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Simple SIP Usage Scenario for Applications in the Endpoints '
as an Informational RFC

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group. 

The IESG contact person is Cullen Jennings.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-sinnreich-sip-tools-07.txt

Technical Summary

   This document describes a way of using a relatively small set of 
   existing IETF standards to achieve a functionally simple unified 
   communications system. 

Working Group Summary

  This is not a product of a working group. 

Document Quality

  Several people read this document and provided feedback.  

Personnel

   Cullen Jennings is the Responsible Area Director.

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Document Action: 'Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap with Padding Algorithm' to Informational RFC

2009-07-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap with Padding Algorithm '
as an Informational RFC

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group. 

The IESG contact person is Tim Polk.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-housley-aes-key-wrap-with-pad-04.txt

  Technical Summary

This document specifies a padding convention for use with the
AES Key Wrap algorithm specified in RFC 3394.  This convention
eliminates the requirement that the length of the key to be
wrapped is a multiple of 64 bits, allowing a key of any
practical length to be wrapped.

  Working Group Summary

This document is not the product of any IETF working group.

  Document Quality

Expert reviews have not found any concerns.


Personnel

   Russ Housley is the Document Shepherd for this document.  
   Tim Polk is the Responsible Area Director.

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Protocol Action: 'TCP Congestion Control' to Draft Standard

2009-07-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'TCP Congestion Control '
as a Draft Standard


This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions 
Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Lars Eggert and Magnus Westerlund.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc2581bis-07.txt

Technical Summary

  The congestion control algorithms described in RFC 2581 are widely
  implemented and used.  This document clarifies some specific points
  that have created questions for implementers in the past.

Working Group Summary

  The working group saw the need for this document based on a small
  number of commonly recurring questions about what is meant by certain
  wordings in RFC2581.  The working group was easily able to agree on
  the clarifications that this document provides.

Document Quality

  The document was reviewed for quality by a large number of TCPM
  WG members.

Personnel

  Wes Eddy (wesley.m.e...@nasa.gov) is the document shepherd.
  Lars Eggert (lars.egg...@nokia.com) reviewed the document for the IESG.

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